Tim Heidecker Quotes

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.

I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.

It's never fun to read death threats.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

When you travel, specifically for our show, you get inspired by rest stops, Cracker Barrel. Middle-America people are perfect.

Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!

We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.

Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.

I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at it."

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.